[americanophile]

While the speculation about this incident is certainly interesting, I think our whole focus should be on what is best for our men and women fighting in Afghanistan and for victory in that country. Our progress there has been purchased at the cost of many lives and the consequences of failure there are too terrible to contemplate. Given our soft approach to the Middle East, Iran, Russia, etc., a failure in Afghanistan, at the hands of Islamic extremists would be the most devastating in our history. We must win there and the fate and ego of any particular person - be he the commander on the ground or the commander in chief should be secondary to the goal of victory.

[DGHoodini]

I thoroughly agree. As I stated in earlier threads, I think that McChrystal is the ‘Canary in Obama’s Afghan “coal mine”’.